Eric Writes:I have a neighbor who has been digging up his back yard for various "ponds" for 3 summers now, with no signs that it will ever amount to anything except big holes, bare dirt and piles of nice topsoil and dead sod.
It's funny you bring that up, I just recently had all of my trim except my windows painted after having a shoddy half done job done by myself. And I have one functioning pond in one corner of my yard, and another unfinished pond/watercourse that my wife dreamed up. My yard looks like a disaster area. I take that back half of my back yard is a disaster area. But I keep it to myself, and you can't see it from the alley, due to the garage blocking it. I have liner down, and now I have to rebuild the first watercourse because it was poorly built by my father. I do cut my grass regularly, so I guess that I don't rank with your neighbor. I also have these similar problems with some of our neighbors. On last New years day, I woke up to take out the garbage. Bleary eyed, I trudged to the alley. I thought I was still sleepy, but I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This guy was burning building materials in his driveway. He had a small chainsaw, and had a rather large pile of wood. So we made the call to 911, and I hustled to get my video camera. The engine came, and this guy just couldn't understand why the fire dept was called. While the pumper was getting ready to go, this guy still was adding wood to the fire!! And when the Captain told him that they had to put the fire out, he threw the saw down, and kicked the pile of wood. Well that act got the police called in, and when the squad showed up, he was mr. nice guy, trying to get out of a ticket. It amazing that the city has been so lenient with some people for so long. Oh and BTW, I was burned for $125 by inspections two years ago. Weeds on my chain link fence. I took them down by the required date, but I still got charged by the inspector for not having it done. Tried to call him, no luck. $125 fine isn't worth me taking a day off from work to go down to city hall to fight it. Stephen Jester McKinley TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
